Woman who had a fourstone cyst removed
After doctors initially insisted she must be pregnant
Stunning pictures show a woman’s astonishing transformation after doctors removed a four stone (26kg) cyst.
Keely Favell, 28, from Swansea, was told by doctors that she was pregnant - but three tests came back as negative.
She played along with well-meaning questions from friends about her baby due date, by pretending she was expecting.
For all Ms Favell knew she was simply piling on the pounds. In fact, the truth behind her creeping weight gain was far more sinister.
Unbeknown to Ms Favell and oblivious doctors, her burden was really a massive ovarian cyst weighing the same as seven newborn babies.
Ms Favell, who shed a third of her bodyweight having the mammoth growth removed under surgery, said: ‘I lost sight of how difficult even simple things like driving a car or walking up the stairs had become.
‘Losing my lump gave me my life back - I can’t thank my surgeon enough.’
Ms Favell started gaining weight around 2014, but blamed her changing body shape on her physique.
She said: ‘I’ve always been chunky, but over the course of a couple of years, I gradually got this tummy.
‘I couldn’t understand it - I was exercising and eating healthily, but I was slowly getting bigger and bigger.
‘It crept up so slowly that I didn’t know anything was wrong - I just thought I was putting on timber.
‘I’ve been with my partner Jamie Gibbins for ten years and we did wonder a few times if I was pregnant - but we did home tests and they always ruled it out.’
After blacking out at work in her office admin job in the summer of 2016, Ms Favell plucked up the courage to see her GP.
She had no idea the fainting spell was linked to her inexplicable weight gain, and doctors dismissed it as a side-effect of skincare drugs.
‘It was a tough period in work, and when I passed out in the office, my GP first put it down to stress,’ she said.
Ms Favell, who shed a third of her bodyweight having the mammoth growth removed under surgery, said: ‘I lost sight of how difficult even simple things like driving a car or walking up the stairs had become